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10 Best Movies Like Carnival

If you loved Carnival, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Knock on Wood

Knock on Wood

1954★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Carnival for fans of Action. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Ventriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriage, his two dolls become mean a...

#2
Cries and Whispers

Cries and Whispers

1972★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Carnival for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

As Agnes slowly dies of cancer, her sisters are so immersed in their own psychic pains that they are unable to offer her the support she needs....

#3
Orange County

Orange County

2002★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Carnival for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Shaun Brumder is a local surfer kid from Orange County who dreams of going to Stanford to become a writer and to get away from his dysfunctional family household. Except Shaun runs...

#4
Shotgun Stories

Shotgun Stories

2007★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Carnival for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas,...

#5
Visitor Q

Visitor Q

2001★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Carnival for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and the father is an ex-TV reporter, sleeping with his daughter and filming his son...

#6
The Longest Day

The Longest Day

1962★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Carnival for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as p...